Student Zaquiel Velasquez, 10 years old, in a classroom at Lakeview Elementary in Oakland, California, on Monday, June 18, 2012. Parents and supporters have been occupying the school, protesting the school's anticipated closure since Friday.

Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle

Student Zaquiel Velasquez, 10 years old, in a classroom at Lakeview...

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Children going into the school at Lakeview Elementary in Oakland, California, on Monday, June 18, 2012.

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Teacher Tamika Groves looks out of a school window with Timothy Terry at Lakeview Elementary in Oakland, California, on Monday, June 18, 2012. Terry's mom worked at Lakeview Elementary for 30 years, and he attended it as an elementary school student.

Dozens of students, parents and activists who have set up camp at an Oakland elementary school to protest a plan to permanently close the school were risking arrest Monday after police posted orders to vacate the school grounds.

The demonstration started as a sit in at Lakeview Elementary School Friday afternoon and bled into the weekend, organizers said. Roughly 15 students and parents remained at the school Monday morning, down from 40 or so over the weekend.

Citing budget woes and declining enrollment, the school board voted in October to close five elementary schools across Oakland: Lakeview, Santa Fe, Marshall, Maxell Park and Lazear. Parents have been fighting to save the schools ever since.

School district police officers assessed the encampment Monday morning and then posted signs advising the protesters that they were "interfering with the good order of a school," a misdemeanor violation.

Oakland Unified School District officials said they had no immediate plans to clear the school.

"We recognize that school closure is a really divisive issue," said district spokesman Troy Flint, adding that the district wanted to give the community one more opportunity to protest the closures in a public manner and then leave voluntarily.

Lakeview parent Joel Velasquez arrived with his wife, three children and his mother on Friday and said he has no plans to leave.

"We want families and all taxpayers to stand up and tell our country that these buildings are going to be used to teach children," he said. "These buildings belong to us."